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Hi Brian, Thanks for this update. I have a question related to Facebook, GMail and Yahoo - for folks who used those services to login to our Hoopla community, are they in any way endangering our community if they have not changed their passwords on those platforms? (For example, on FB, you can choose to always use https for your account; and you can also integrate your account with Hoopla; and FB was at risk due to Heartbleed.) I would like to post a reminder to our members to change those...

Hi Melanie, I don't think they could be "endangering" your community unless they are admins on your site and those sites were exposed to the heartbleed vulnerability. Of course, if their Facebook/Google/Yahoo accounts were compromised, then they would be vulnerable on any third party system that they have linked to their social account (such as Hoop.la). Hoop.la has no inherent vulnerability by using those third party social login platforms, so it really comes down to whether or not a user's...

Hi @neil , all of the links within Hoop.la, and external links TO your Hoop.la site, will just work magically. However, you would want to check your header, footer, any custom CSS, ad slots, images or videos from an external source, etc., for anything loading http:// and change it to https://.

Neil, we run banner ads in our Hoopla forum served from an outfit called "Adpeeps.com." When we first made the Hoopla change to https, the banners did not appear. The browser would not display a mix of "secure" and "non-secure" content. All I had to do was go into the Adpeeps code and add the "s" where appropriate and all was OK. Adpeeps now generates code that contains "https" so the problem has solved itself on both ends. External LINKS appeared just fine, even though the link was going to...

@neil , the process to enable TLS/SSL will automatically update your community URLs (including embedded image attachments, etc.) to use SSL. Any external URLs will not be updated, however, as Hoop.la can't make any guarantees about whether those external data sources support HTTPS or not. Note that this would only be an issue for embedded content; any external URL links wouldn't be an issue. Does that help?

Hi @neil ! That just means that when Hoop.la generates automated extracts of posts (e.g. for showing recent replies in the topic list), Hoop.la will now strip out any quoted text (i.e. text in a blockquote ). This will give more focus to the actual post/reply/comment that was made.

Hi Gary, Your Hoop.la site doesn't have SSL, so there is no SSL certificate to be worried about (and if there was, we would have notified you about it). Do you have any other websites that have SSL enabled that the call could have been about? If not, it may have been a spam phone call. Hope that helps! Brian

Here at Social Strata, we are always looking for ways to increase security for our customer communities, and today we are announcing a new offering to allow our customers to use HTTPS (i.e. "SSL") at no conet

We wanted to provide a formal update regarding the recently discovered Heartbleed SSL vulnerability. The issue is a bug in the widely-used OpenSSL library that enables an attacker to gain access to private keys that allow the attacker to steal data...

Here at Social Strata, the security of our customers and their visitors is paramount. Last October we published a blog post about our offer of free Let's Encrypt certificates so that our customers can add TLS (previously known as SSL) to their Hoop.la communities, as there are several security advantages in doing so. The response was amazing, with a significant amount of customers taking that offer. Now, starting June 5th, we are proactively moving all Hoop.la communities to HTTPS in order...

Hi Tara, Thank you for your contact! We have now enabled SSL on your site. You will notice that the site will now respond to https://members.thegrantscollective.org . However, to get a padlock, showing that the site is fully secured, all the elements on the page (like images) will have to be using https too. I believe that is not the case with the banner on the top of your site. If you change that, you should be able to get the padlock beside the URL of your site (like you see if you go to...

Hi all, This one: The address that the image loads from (not the link it leads to) starts with http://members.thegrantscollec....org/ws/masthead5_.. . and it should be https. The destination link can stay as it is, although if you want you can change that too. Regards, Paulo

Hi Paul, You are correct. All requests will be redirected automatically to a secure connection. If you enter http://www.socialstrata.com on your browser, it will redirect you to a secure connection. Incoming links from other sites work the same way.

If I understand this correctly, all the items that are presently on our site (TravelGumbo.com) with http:// will automatically convert to https:// but it will not change external links embedded in blogs, etc. If I am correct, what will happen if someone clicks on a Tweet, or a link somewhere else, that contains http://travelgumbo.com/blog/whatever ? Will it automatically route to https://travelgumbo.comc/blog/whatever ? If not, what can we do to make that happen?

Good afternoon, My site Huskermat.com is hosted through SS and I was wondering what I would need to do to enable an SSL for my site. I understand that at the end of the month Google Chrome will display the message that the site is unsafe if an SSL is not enabled. What would I need to do to resolve this issue? Thanks--Ross

Hi, Ross: We can do that for you for free! We use Let's Encrypt, per this article we posted last fall. Before we actually switch it over to SSL, you'll want to update any http resources you have on the site to https. For example, any external JavaScript, CSS, images, etc that are currently loading http:// should be changed to https://. Once you've checked the site and made those changes, let us know, and we'll make the switch. Let me know if you have any questions! Lori

As many of you know, we recently migrated all Hoop.la sites to SSL . One consequence of switching to SSL is that some Social Network integrations may need to be updated. This is due to OAuth callback URLs which are registered for each Social Network and are used to validate the authenticity of requests made through the various APIs that enable these features. Since each Hoop.la customer controls their own Social Network integrations, you must fix the issue if it applies to your site. If you...

Hello, As Google has made SSL necessary, may I know how I can enable SSL on SS hosted website? Also, let me know the procedure to automatically renew the certificate as it gets expired in the period of three months.

I still see .. There is no SSL installed on your site .. As Lori said .. It might be complicated for you .. But if you are using WordPress then I would suggest you go with Really Simple SSL plugin. It's amazing .. You don't need any kind of coding .. Just install the plugin and get it done ..

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